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United Nations Goes ANT
Rollin on six wheels bringin some gear. The A.N.T. vehicle is first and foremost an aid vehicle. ANT stands for Aid Necessities Transporter, mover of food, water, medical supplies, and housing units. And what you’re gonna love the most is the fabulous way it takes on and drops off it’s extremely helpful cargo.
First, it’s name isn’t only clever, it has to do with the weight it can bear: 10-50 times it’s own weight, and it’s quick efficient ability to move over any terrain. It’s got two modes: transport mode and rapid mode. In transport mode it carries slightly less than conventional supply trucks, but with much quicker transport time and over much more insane terrain.
In rapid mode, the front rotates 90 degrees downward for, yes, even more RAPID return for more supplies.
The wheels are individually powered.
The load is often a temporary housing unit. These units transform with a simple rotation of it’s side panels. Inside can be found medical supplies, food, and water. Also contained within is electricity and clean water generators.
Since the vehicle is meant to travel in groups, each one provides only accommodation for one driver. And if I was in the UN, that one person would be me! And I would drive it straight to the moon, Alice…
Straight to the moon!
Designer: Brian Lee
Self-Heating Radiator Roads Save Cars From Icy Conditions
It’s about that time of the year when roads start freezing over and cars slip-slide into accidents. Fortunately for drivers, Researchers at the University of Houston, Texas want to make these ice-related mishaps a thing of the past with self-heating roads that can keep ice from forming.
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GM Car Hero Challenges Your Driving Skills Against The Car’s Autonomous System
The OnStar Car Hero is much of a gaming experience while driving and is a very good teacher to the beginner drivers. During starting, simply enter your destination by using your smart phone and it will take you to there. Meanwhile, you can learn more about the car to match your skill level with the system and unlock the complete control over the car by overriding the autonomous system of the car. As you go better, the Car Hero will transform gradually to offer tougher challenge to the driver. Moreover, it features P2P applications such as Friends Drive where any of your friends can join you for a digital joyride.
Designer : Frank Saucedo, Thamer Hannona, Shawn Moghadam, Julius Bernardo, Jussi Timonen, and Steve Anderson
A Practical Screw
Who wouldnt like a screwumm screwdriver thats practical! The Big O in this concept is that its offers better grip, with the handle swiveling a cool 90 degrees to stand perpendicular to the metal shaft. Now if you want to read a deeper meaning to this post, be my guestbecause phrases like force can be applied with a much stronger grip and toughest screws can be tightened more easily makes me think of double meaning stuff!
Designers: Liu Yunlong , Jia Peng, Cheng Peng ,Wang Dongdong & Xin Yaoyao
Concerning Wooden Mice
You use a mouse. Even if you have a laptop, you’ve USED a mouse, and when you go to the Apple store, I bet you use one of those giant computers with mice to check your emails. I mean I do that, right? Yes I do. And when I do, I think about how plastic the mouse is. What do I want instead? This lovely piece of design right here: the “AlestRukov” wooden mouse! Plug-n-play!
First let me tell you this: five year warrantee. A wooden mouse with a warrantee – finally! Then, look at this: made from types of wood cultivated specifically for industrial use, safe for the environment to manufacture and to use. The parts that aren’t wooden are made of the least amount of material possible, the wood itself covered with natural linseed oil and carnauba wax for protection from wear.
All wooden components made from a single piece of solid wood.
Mouse works in any* computer without new software or drivers. *unless you’ve got one of those custom-made, everything needs a new line of code and a hundred dollars to work kind of computers. You nerd.
BONUS: Also take note of the unique mouse cord. It’s a sort of “stay” cord that allows you the space you need in the situation you’re in.
Designer: Alest Rukov
All Ter Sport Coupe by Batyr Ospanov
The All Terrain sport coupe is a two seater, electrically powered vehicle with two driving modes helping the driver to run it on both smooth and rough surfaces. The first mode which is Road Mode keeps the car in a shape of a normal vehicle and allows it to travel along the traffic. When the user switches it to Off-Road mode the vehicle becomes higher and wider since the wheels come out and the chassis becomes higher to allow the car travel through rough terrains such as steppes and deserts.There are solar cells placed on the glassed door so that when the user stops the vehicle and lift the door, the cells can produce some extra power. Under the transparent bonnet there are two extra lights helping the user to travel through the desert during night.
Designer : Batyr Ospanov
Honda Native is 3 Seated Vehicle Powered By Lithium-Ion Battery
The Honda Native concept comprises an electric engine which is powered by heavy-duty lithium-ion battery and can house 3 persons including the driver. This ultra compact car with great aerodynamic features has been designed for the massively congested future traffic where speed will be ignored over low space riding efficiency. Its down to the ground design will allow the car to offer smooth riding experience to the riders. The exterior parts of the vehicle are made of photocromic materials that make it possible for the car to change its color according to the light, temperature and other surrounding environmental factors.
Designer : Liviu Tudoran
EEL Three-Wheeler Lightweight Vehicle with Bio-ethanol Engine
The EEL concept is a compact and lightweight vehicle that features functional aerodynamic construction for great energy efficiency. The compact shape of this three-wheeler allows it waving through busy traffic and in between other cars and houses only one passenger and the driver. When turning, it has been designed to lean to the particular direction allowing better control for the driver. This electric vehicle comprises bio-ethanol engine which is completely eco-friendly. When charging through a traditional power point, the covered scooter shaped vehicle looks much like a mobile phone getting charged through its charger.
Designer : Muhammad Imran
Audi eSpira and Audi eOra for Future Generations
Audi has envisioned two vehicles for the future generations who will born into a complete digital environment with autonomy far away from todays vision.
Audi eSpira: The AspirationThis is the most uncompromised form of Audi, acts as an extension of the drivers body. It utilizes next generation automobile control logic to transform the drivers every movements and gestures into driving command.
Audi eOra: The EssenceThis is an extremely efficient and dynamic sport vehicle that will be a dream of every young and adventurous individual in future. It uses the same control logic of eSpira and can carve the roadscape like a downhill skier with great accuracy.
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Designer : AUDI
Audi Avatar 3-Seater Electric Supercar for 2032
The Audi Avatar is a 3-seater electric supercar concept specially designed for the drivers of 2032 tothe pleasure of driving that they experienced playing racing games during their childhood days. The appearance of the car is much identical with the science fiction flying cars we used to watch. This futuristic car concept features 4 extremely powerful in-wheel electric motors powered by supercharge-ion batteries. The ultra lightweight aerodynamic body along with the powerful backend, it can accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h in just 2.9 seconds and can achieve the top speed of over 360km/h with responsive handling.
Some explanation from Edwin :
The exterior desing of the car is inspired by the form of fabric blown in the wind. The form also carries traces of the historical Auto Union Type C Streamline race.
There are no conventional doors on the car, but instead, inspired by the jet fighters, there are three glass canopies. The main canopy opens forward together with the steering wheel and the dashboard; the two passengers canopies open backwards; and a side panel on the bodywork opens downwards to act as a step, making the event of getting in and out of the cockpit very special and easy.
The interior is simply one continuous sheet, starting from the dashboard, then being folded and bended to create floor carpet and seat.
The interior of the car is as simple and futuristic as the exterior. Single sheet transparent LCD dashboard displays all the essential data such as speed and mileage. The screen in the center of the steering wheel displays digital map. The information can also be projected on the canopy by a head up display. The
whole driving experience would be like flying a fighter jet. There is a small but handy luggage space behind the driver seat for handbags and suitcases. It is also an arm rest for the passengers.
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